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It's a cute little tool; though I guess I'm somewhat confused; is the "Show" here the egamebook site itself or is it your entry to the Interactive Fiction Compe

by csydas 9y ago

It's a cute little tool; though I guess I'm somewhat confused; is the "Show" here the egamebook site itself or is it your entry to the Interactive Fiction Competition? Because while your story is fun and overall well done, the system it's running on is pretty interesting to me; I was desperately clicking around the top level of the site looking for the option to make one for myself and play around with the scripting, and only after searching for what IFComp stood for did I start to get that this is a one off-entry I guess? If I am wrong, please correct me and point me to where I can play around with the system you've made, because it has nice flow to it.

lambda_tango 9y ago
Not OP, but the system is described at [0], and apparently hasn't been released yet. Code for this particular story appears to be available at [1], although: > This code depends on package:egamebook which is not yet open source. Until that happens, you won't be able to build this project unless you're part of the development team (reach out to filiphracek@ if you're interested). [0] https://egamebook.com/ https://egamebook.com/ [1] https://github.com/filiph/edgehead https://github.com/filiph/edgehead
- filiph 9y ago
  This is correct. Both these things (the game and the system) are kind of big, at least in terms of time invested, but what I released yesterday was the game. Technically, it's also the system's first major release (there was another small game 2 years ago [0]). If anyone wants to hack on this, I'm open to giving them access to the egamebook repo, somehow (I wish there was a github per-user privacy setting...). I just don't yet have the documentation and time to make a full open-source release — not at the quality I'd expect from a project like this. [0]: https://egamebook.com/lochness/ https://egamebook.com/lochness/
  - csydas 9y ago
    I appreciate your response, as well as lambda_tango's. Not sure if it matters, but consider this my interest in this project as a user. I unfortunately am next to useless when it comes to programming, but I could easily see this being wonderful as a platform or integrated into plenty of existing platforms as a plugin. It's a very slick presentation and works well for what it's meaning to do.
  - tarboreus 9y ago
    I would also just add that opening up the code doesn't mean you have to have perfect docs in place. This is a great idea, though, and I enjoyed the game.

by csydas 9y ago

lambda_tango 9y ago

Not OP, but the system is described at [0], and apparently hasn't been released yet. Code for this particular story appears to be available at [1], although: > This code depends on package:egamebook which is not yet open source. Until that happens, you won't be able to build this project unless you're part of the development team (reach out to filiphracek@ if you're interested). [0] https://egamebook.com/ https://egamebook.com/ [1] https://github.com/filiph/edgehead https://github.com/filiph/edgehead

filiph 9y ago
This is correct. Both these things (the game and the system) are kind of big, at least in terms of time invested, but what I released yesterday was the game. Technically, it's also the system's first major release (there was another small game 2 years ago [0]). If anyone wants to hack on this, I'm open to giving them access to the egamebook repo, somehow (I wish there was a github per-user privacy setting...). I just don't yet have the documentation and time to make a full open-source release — not at the quality I'd expect from a project like this. [0]: https://egamebook.com/lochness/ https://egamebook.com/lochness/
- csydas 9y ago
  I appreciate your response, as well as lambda_tango's. Not sure if it matters, but consider this my interest in this project as a user. I unfortunately am next to useless when it comes to programming, but I could easily see this being wonderful as a platform or integrated into plenty of existing platforms as a plugin. It's a very slick presentation and works well for what it's meaning to do.
- tarboreus 9y ago
  I would also just add that opening up the code doesn't mean you have to have perfect docs in place. This is a great idea, though, and I enjoyed the game.